More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 105

But so came one day, as they sat on the great settle in the Inn, a man from the far end of the bog lands was smoking and listening, when all at once he sat up and slapped his knee. "

Who acts: folks, man · What happens: come, sit, smoke, listen, sit up, slap · To what, where: great settle, all, Inn, knee

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folks, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 came	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 sat	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 settle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 settle	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 settle	amod
13	settle	settle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 Inn	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Inn	det
16	Inn	Inn	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 smoking	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 man	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 smoking	nsubj
20	from	from	ADP	_	23 end	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 end	det
22	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 end	amod
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 lands	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lands	det
26	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lands	compound
27	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 end	nmod
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 smoking	aux
29	smoking	smoke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sat	advcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 listening	cc
31	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 smoking	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 all	punct
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 all	advmod
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 smoking	obj
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 once	case
36	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	38 sat	obl
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 sat	nsubj
38	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 all	acl:relcl
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 sat	compound:prt
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 slapped	cc
41	slapped	slap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 sat	conj
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 knee	nmod:poss
43	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 slapped	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past				day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past	folks = folk		the great settle		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on settle=Location
3	smoke	past · progressive	a man from the far end of the bog lands	all	the Inn		vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent all=Source
4	listen	gerund	a man from the far end of the bog lands not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	sit up	past	man				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location
6	slap	past	man not said here	man's knee			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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